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PUDUCHERRY: AICC General Secretary and former Union Minister V Narayanasamy today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sack External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for helping scam-tainted former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi in procuring travel documents in the UK. "If she does not step down on her own, the Prime Minister should sack her from the cabinet" he told reporters here today. He said Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje "were safeguarding the former the former IPL chief".

NEW DELHI: Delhi government today announced that it will provide a compensation of Rs 1 crore to the families of city-native defence and paramilitary force personnel killed while on duty. The compensation will also be given to the families of Delhi Police personnel, city-based home guards, civil defence personnel killed while discharging their duty, Delhi Finance Minister Manish Sisodia said while presenting the budget for the financial year 2015-16. "The government has decided to give a compensation of Rs one crore to their families.

NEW DELHI: The Sports Ministry has sanctioned an amount of Rs 9 lakh to badminton star Saina Nehwal for hiring a full time physiotherapist till 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The sanctioned money is for a period of 15 months, starting this month. "The assistance will be utilized for payment of monthly remuneration to the Physiotherapist at the rate of Rupees Sixty Thousand per month. The selection of Physiotherapist has been done by Saina Nehwal herself," a ministry release said.

PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to provide special assistance to the state on the lines of Andhra Pradesh . In his letter, Kumar referred to Jaitley's statement in the US today hinting that a financial assistance is likely to be given to Bihar soon. The Centre will go "all out" to support Bihar in a "big way" and is likely to announce projects and schemes in a few weeks time to assist the resource-rich state, Jaitley said at the Stanford University in the US. "We await with expectations that this will fructify into something concrete and will not be just another announcements of the past," Kumar wrote to the PM. In the past nine years, the state government has been working tirelessly for all-round development of Bihar so that the state can stand along with the developed states, the Bihar Chief Minister said in the letter.

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today directed the Information and Public Relations Department to make a new advertisement policy for the electronic and print media. While reviewing the performance of the I&PR department here, the chief minister also asked to provide health treatment assistance to more number of scribes from the Journalists' Welfare Fund. He directed the inter-departmental committee headed by Development Commissioner to recommend the possible features of the proposed new advertisement policy and asked the department to make provisions for receiving online applications from journalists and providing financial assistance to them within two months.

BENGALURU: A technical committee will be constituted to look into the demand for suburban train services for Bengaluru, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said here on Saturday. Speaking at the inauguration of a new station building at Bengaluru city railway station, union Minister for Law and Justice Sadananda Gowda and union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers Ananth Kumar demanded suburban train services on the lines of Mumbai. They highlighted the perennially increasing road traffic and difficulties faced by the people in the city.

ERODE: The Detailed Project Report for the proposed Rs 700 crore effluent treatment plants for small and medium textile and dyeing units in four western districts of Tamil Nadu would be prepared within the next five months. The report would be prepared by district administration, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and the Tamilnadu Water Investment Corporation (TWIC) and submitted to government for approval, Erode District Collector S Prabhakar said.

AGARTALA: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had remained noncommittal during his recent discussion on the demand to continue the Special Category status for North Eastern states. A resolution for continuing the Special Category status of the eight North Eastern states was taken following discussion with the Chief Ministers of the states concerned and a memorandum in this regard was sent to the Prime Minister on April 23 last, Sarkar said.

MUMBAI: Union Minister Kalraj Mishra today said that there is a need for the Prime Minister's Employment Guarantee Programme (PMEGP) to reach grass root levels. Mishra, who holds the charge of MSME (Micro, Small and medium Enterprises), held a meeting with bankers, officials of the Maharashtra Khadi and Village Board and state industry department here to review the progress, an official release said. He said the banks should avoid delay in sanctioning of loans. "Timely sanction of the projects will result in getting subsidy to the beneficiaries without any hurdle," he said.